A 33-year-old Gambia-born drug pusher
who supplied the drugs on which 44-year-old actor and director
Libero De Rienzo had a fatal overdose in mid July 2021 on
Wednesday got eight years in jail for the offence.
Mustafa Minte Lamin was cleared of the crime of causing death
through another offence but convicted of drug distribution.
The Gambian national was arrested after being caught red-handed
selling narcotics in Rome's Torre Angela district.
He was found guilty of selling De Rienzo drugs shortly before
his death in his home.
Heroin was found in the actor's apartment.
Born in Naples in 1977, De Rienzo opted for a career in show
business following in the footsteps of his father Fiore De
Rienzo, who had been assistant director to cult leftist director
Citto Maselli.
Libero won a David di Donatello Best Actor Prize, Italy's Oscar,
in 2002 and 2006.
He also won acclaim in Marco Risi's 2009 film Fortapa' sc (Fort
Apache in Naples), where he played the Neapolitan journalist
Giancarlo Siani, killed by the Camorra mafia in 1985.
Among his more recent films are 'Smetto quando voglio' (I'll
Stop When I Want, 2014) and the 2019 film 'A Tor Bella Monaca
non piove mai' (It Never Rains in Tor Bella Monaca).
Although he had lived in Rome since he was two, De Rienzo was
closely attached to the city of Naples.
Married to costume designer Marcella Mosca, he had two children
aged six and two.
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